Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people are accustomed to hearing about the asinine antics of Texans, can regard them in their proper light . . . If anyone could tell me how to answer foreigners who laugh at such irresponsible conduct as displayed between the authorities of two large cities in the most powerful country in the world ... I should be grateful...
...fact, with the exception of Princeton, Harvard and its Pentagonal mates--Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale--have usually played two hard, close games with the three Boston schools. The games, however, do not count in the standings. The Boston schools are good enough to play, but not proper enough to join the League, and because of this, local coaches have squawked, interest has dropped, and gate receipts have lagged...
...Proper Attitude...
...When." Obviously, Curator Dodgson did not take his duties lightly. He used every mathematical device he knew to keep his cellars just right and to make sure that the paneled Common Room would glow with good wine and talk. When he wanted to know the proper temperature for a wine or when it should be decanted, he was not satisfied with the opinion of only one expert. He wrote to ten, averaged up their answers and acted accordingly. Nor did he trust the accuracy of only one thermometer. Each week he faithfully took the average reading of three...
...with the reporters of U.S. newspapers and press services, and a handful of nightclub columnists, e.g., Walter Winchell, Dorothy Kilgallen and Earl Wilson, some of whom rarely see the morning light. Even such papers as the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, which righteously proclaimed on its editorial page that it was proper to "seal off this filthy business from the public view," told its public on Page One the same day: "Call Girl Pat Ward wept at her past today and choked over the names of café society big shots to whom she sold her love...